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Global winners of “SDGs and Her” Competition celebrated at New York event
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The SDGs and Her competition is open to women who own and/or lead micro-enterprises with nine or fewer employees, and which have loan eligibility under USD $10,000 or annual sales under USD 100,000
NEW YORK, United States of America
Today, the global winners of the SDGs and Her Competition were celebrated at a side-event during the high-level week of the...
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Canon Celebrates third anniversary of the United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals
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If we want to make the SDGs happen, we need everyone to take action
Today, Canon (www.Canon-CNA.com), a provider of imaging technologies and services, will celebrate the anniversary of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals along with thousands of individuals, organisations, and institutions across the globe. In 2015 world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17...
The speakers again called for youths to be ‘solutionists’ and urged them to be innovative, sensitive to opportunities in Africa and create their own social enterprises that could earn them sustainable financial freedom through career in the future
The Africa Internship Academy (www.AfricaInternshipAcademy.com) has organized its maiden Future of Work in Africa (https://bit.ly/2DyDPOC) 2018 event last Saturday.
The event themed “Enhancing Partnerships for...
Kenya Airways has opened a Euro Account to offer guests more payment options at its sales outlets in Kenya.
This brings to three the currencies accepted by Kenya Airways as a means of payment at its outlets countrywide. They are the Euro, the US dollar and the Kenya shilling.
“We have opened a Euro Account to offer our guests more flexibility for payment options at all our sales outlets in Kenya. We want to offer our...
Farming
The Status Quo is Unacceptable: It’s time to normalize the narratives on African Migration, Experts Urge
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Noting that charity begins at home, the experts called on African leaders to reverse the growing global trend towards “securitization of migration,” by acting on commitments to ease travel restrictions and promote regular migration across the African continent
KIGALI, Rwanda, September 25, 2018/ -- Technical experts to the High-Level Panel on Migration in Africa (HLPM) concluded a two-day meeting at...
GROHE ONDUS app – the technology’s heart that creates a water profile
Smart Home technology provides protection of and comfort in your home; GROHE (GROHE.com) Sense and GROHE Sense Guard – wireless-enabled water security system; GROHE ONDUS app – the technology’s heart that creates a water profile.
Smart Home is much talked about! The ability to control devices in your home...
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Walking the talk crucial if Africa is going to change the fortunes of its people
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As Mauritius we are determined to make things happen for our nation and we would want to do this along with our African brothers and sisters that’s why we are saying Africa must wake up and see that winds of change are blowing the world over
The joint expert group meeting on the role of small and medium enterprises in...
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Africa’s Oil Sector Continues to Rebound and Strengthen its Voice Through the African Energy Chamber
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Record membership and solids fundraising for the African Energy Chamber in August and September 2018; Local content push with Senegalese Prime Minister Mahammed Dionne
As the leading and most influential advocacy group for the majority of the companies and workers in the continent’s oil and gas sector, the African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) has announced that the African oil industry...
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Norway increases contribution to EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
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So far this year, about 86 000 migrants have come to Europe from Africa
‘The loss of thousands of lives on the journey across the Sahara and the Mediterranean is a terrible tragedy. Norway is therefore providing a further NOK 60 million to the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa,’ said Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide.
The EU Emergency...
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U.S. Embassy showcases winning projects from Solve IT! Competition
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SolveIt! is a national innovation competition launched by the U.S. Embassy in collaboration with U.S.-based NGO Humanity plus (H+) and iCog Labs and an Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence (AI) company
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa wrapped up its SolveIT! competition with a public showcase of 31 innovative technology projects on September 22, 2018. SolveIt! is a national innovation competition launched...